Prejudice Quote by Allen W. Wood

I want to mention that Marx shares something, if you don't mind the comparison, with the Old Testament: many people talk about him, but…

— Erich Fromm

“Think how much less stupefying the last fifty years might have been if people had actually read Marx.”

— Marilynne Robinson

“Marx - like everyone else - did reject certain ideas of human nature; but he also regarded some as being true. It is important…

— Norman Geras

I actually did trouble to read Marx first hand. I found it illuminating in so many ways; in particular, my perception of the relationship…

— Tony Blair

I never read Karl Marx.

— Jean-Luc Godard

In fact, there are very important writings of Marx which are not even translated into English.

— Erich Fromm

For one who has read the works of Marx it is frightening to look back at the grim determination with which so many nations…

— Robert Heilbroner

We totally misunderstand both his aims and his contribution if we try to read into Marx some anticipation of either the modest successes or…

— Allen W. Wood

Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

The first time I read Marx, all I knew was he had given rise to this [Soviet] system that was supposed to be more…

— Joe Weisberg

And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has…

— Albert Maltz

“Unfortunately Marx said that the important thing is not to understand the world but to change it. Poor man, he got it the wrong…

— Malcolm Bradbury